Way marble floors, fans, vases, or roses
service, for artists certainly need a
sponsible body which will look after their
brings out one capital point, that Whistler worked out with elaborate technique.
service, for artists certainly need a
sponsible body which will look after their
brings out one capital point, that Whistler worked out with elaborate technique.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
At the
In
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No. 4418, JUNE 29, 1912
bottom of the bowl is a bust surrounded by con-
the digestive tube have a useful as well as a
ventional birds. The bowl is a peculiarly fine
harmful part to play.
example of Sassanian art.
Dr. P. Norman, Treasurer, and Mr. F. W. Reader
Science Gossip.
A MINOR planet discovered by Herr Palisa
read a paper on recent discoveries of Roman
remains in London, which was a sequel to one
of Vienna last October turns out to be of
read before the Society in 1906. The main points With the spread of cinematograph theatres exceptional interest on account of the
of the paper are as follows: First, an account was throughout the country, the use of uninflam. position and form of its orbit. This minute
given of four bastions of the City wall, two of mable films has become a matter of great object--not more than four or five miles
which had been partly excavated at the expense
of the Society.
importance, and we might with advantage in diameter—which is technically known as
Of these two, one on the site of
Christ's Hospital has been preserved by the Post
imitate Russia in making the sale of any MT. of 1911, has the same perihelion distance
Office authorities, while the other, under the others illegal. The collodion employed in as Eros, but an orbit of nearly double the
vestry of All Hallows-on-the-Wall, though still the manufacture of cinematograph films is eccentricity, the period being 2*6 years.
notable discovery is that of a narrowfkoman'aitch generally made from nitro-cellulose dissolved Thus although its mean distance from the
in a mixture of camphor, methylic alcohol,
outside the City wall. This was observed in
sun is considerably greater than that of
America Square, at All Hallows, and at Christ's
and ether; but the same effect can be pro- Eros, on account of the greater eccentricity
Hospital. An addition to the Roman gate at duced by the substitution for the nitro- of its orbit it will approach the earth at the
Newgate was found, which proved the width from cellulose of one of the acetylated celluloses, oppositions which occur in the neighbour-
east to west to have been about 31 ft.
or, in other words, of a cellulose prepared hood of perihelion as closely as Eros does
A tower at the Old Bailey, believed by John
with acetic instead of nitric acid. A col. in the same circumstances. It will thus,
Wykeham Archer to be medieval, was redis-
covered and carefully examined, and proved to
lodion thus prepared can be dissolved in along with the latter planet, be at these
be comparatively modern. The authors also acetone and other substances, and acetylated times our nearest celestial neighbour, with
described a piece of the south wall of the City cellulose is actually used in the produc- the exception of the moon.
found last year. This is quite different in con- tion of electrical insulators. Its high price,
struction from the Roman wall on the east,
It appears from observations of the solar
north, and west, and was probably of later date: compared with that of nitro-cellulose, has
hitherto been against its general adoption ; eclipse made by Prof. Fowler at South
MICROSCOPICAL. —June 19. -Mr. H. G. Plimmer,
but with the cheap acetone we are promised Kensington on April 17th last, that it is
President, in the chair. - A paper by Lord Avebury as a by-product of synthetic rubber, this possible to see the bright lines in the spectrum
was read, giving a short account of the develop- objection should now be overcome. Dr. of the solar chromosphere during some phases
ment of pollen and of recent researches on fertiliza- | W. K, Main in an article in the current of an eclipse which is not quito total, or
tion, which show more and more complexity. number of the Revue Scientifique gives the during the partial phase of a total eclipse.
A paper On some New Astrorhizidæ and their
Structure’ was contributed by Messrs. E. Heron-
details of its preparation, and says that it This may modify the arrangements for
Allen and Earland. Two new ecies of Psammo- is already being turned out in Germany future solar eclipses, as hitherto it has been
sphæra and one of Marsipella were described from and the United States in considerable supposed that these lines can only be seen
Sea in connexion with the work of the Inter- cinematograph films throughout the world stantaneously in total solar eclipses, when
specimens
dredged by Mr. Earland in the North quantities. He estimates the production of in the "fash” spectrum which appears in-
Dr. J. F. Gaskell communicated A Method of at 300,000 metres per day.
the chromospheric stratum round the edge
embedding Tissues in Gelatin. '
of the sun is alone uncovered by the moon.
The presentation of a testimonial and illu- PROF. METCHNIKOFF's last recipe for The Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of
minated address to Mr. F. A. Parsons, who has long life is given in a communication made the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical
recently retired from the post of Assistant Secre- by him and Dr. Eugène Wollmann to the Society will shortly consider the question of
tary, took place. Mr. Parsons had served the
Society for nearly sixteen years.
Académie des Sciences during this month. observation of the total eclipse of the sun
He there tells us that senile decay is in of 1914-August 21st-which will be visible
METEOROLOGICAL. . —June 19. -Dr. H. N. Dick- / great measure caused by intestinal poisons, as a total eclipse from Norway and Sweden
son, President, in the chair. -Dr. G. C. Simpson, of which indol and the phenols are among and other parts of Europe, when these newly
meteorologist to the British Antarctic Expedition the chief. These are much less readily acquired ideas may take effect.
1910, read a paper on Coronæ and Iridescent absorbed by the great intestine than is
Clouds. ' During September, 1911, he was one
of a party led by Capt. Scott to survey McMurdo
sugar, and it would, on the same authority,
Sound, and on the 24th, while enveloped in fog, be advantageous to create a source of sugar
be observed a fine fog-bow. It was opposite the in this last. The idea of the writers is,
sun, and a measurement of the radius with a therefore, to administer substances which,
tbeodolite gave 38°.
FINE ARTS
white, but å reddish tinge could be seen on the shall not be converted into sugar until
The bow was virtually owing to the presence of certain microbes,
outer side. As the fog dissipated, the upper
sky became clearer, and the sun shone over the they arrive at the great intestino. They
top of a heavy bank of fog. For some minutes conclude, that the ideal food of man would
and the diameter of this corona seemed unusually a day, with 500 or 600 grammes of clotted
the sun had a brilliant corona with bright colours, be a small quantity of meat, or 120 grammes Memories of James McNeill Whistler. By
T. R. Way. (John Lane. )
large ; but there was no opportunity to make a
measurement. As the fog still further cleared
milk acidulated by the paralactic cocco-
away, glimpses of the corona appeared again, bacillus, the remainder of the two daily IF Whistler was not a master (and the
and the fog under the sun became fairly brilliantly meals which they recommend being made point is still in dispute), at all events he
illuminated with iridescent colours, which did not
up, of vegetables, fruits, and farinaceous had more disciples than most men of
appear to be part of the corona, but in places
blended into it. During the whole period the
substances. With this they claim to have genius. Some of these disciples depress
temperature was between -15° and -21° F. The reduced the production of indoxyl and the
reduced the production of indoxyl and the us, others affect us in quite a contrary
fur of the sleeping bags and the wool of sweaters urinary phenols to a minimum.
became covered with hoarfrost. These observa-
way, and there are a few whose accounts
tions show that water can exist in the atmosphere A CURIOUS point arises with regard to of the man and artist we can be genuinely
at much lower temperatures than has, generally the experiments made by M. Michel Co. grateful for. Mr. Way writes of Whistler
generally admitted that, while halos are caused hendy at the Institut Pasteur at Paris, the worker ; for the most part he does
by the refraction and reflection of ice crystals, and recently noticed in these columns. By not dwell on the many episodes that kept
coronæ are due to diffraction effects of either isolating chickens under entirely aseptic
isolating chickens under entirely aseptic Whistler's name constantly before the
small drops of water or thin ice needles. From conditions, he has succeeded, as he
certain observations made in the Antarctic, Dr.
Simpson was led to doubt the possibility of ice
in making them live without microbes, public, episodes at once trivial and un-
crystals ever forming diffraction effects. This
His concern is to show how
and finds that their bodily strength is forgettable.
is an important question for meteorology, for, thereby fairly maintained. But their diges. the “ butterfly” toiled to produce those
if it is true, we have a powerful instrument tive organs remain charged with a higher things of beauty that dazzled younger
for determining the constitution of a cloud :
if there is a corona, the cloud must be composed tion, and it is therefore necessary for them many of them now, when they are no
proportion of the useless products of diges. contemporaries and continue to dazzle
of water, while, if there is a halo, it must be
composed of ice.
to consume a greater quantity of food than longer youthful. Some day, we suppose,
Mr. W. W. Bryant read a paper on The | animals normally brought up. When
Adoption of a Climatological Day.
such chickens are
the real truth about Whistler will come
released from their
aseptic life and allowed to run with their out. Rumours of it, indeed, have been
Mox. Royal Institution, 6. -Oeneral Meeting,
fellows, their digestive tubes are invaded already whispered by more than one
Aristotelian. 8. -A Modern Materialist, 4 Study of the
Philosophy of George Santyana,' Mr. D. L. Murray.
within twenty-four hours by millions of former devotee ; and the idol set up,
Jewish Historical Society of England, 8. 30. A Dutch Burial- bacteria without any apparent injury. to first in an exclusive by-way, and later in
health, and thereafter they generally thrive. the public market-place, is hardly so
Light throtra on Roman Scotland by the Excavations at The conclusion is drawn from this that the firm in its niche as it was a few years ago.
Faraday. 8. Electrocapillary Pulsation of a Mercury
defence of the organism against bacteria
Mod. Lewis : "On the Variation of the Conductivity of is hereditary, and not acquired; but it
There is evidence of this in Mr. Way's
may quite as well be that the bacteria in volume; not positive evidence indeed,
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Ground and its English Connexions. Rev. Isidore Harris.
TUES. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 4. 30. -The
Cappuck, near Jadbergh, in 1911-12. ' Mr. O. H. Stevenson.
Meniscus, Meskrs. A. P. Roshdestwensky And W. 0.
Aluminium Anode-Pilms with Temperature, Mr. G. E.
Bairsto.
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re-
was
but rather negative, inasmuch as there
Robert Lee's Workshop, 501. ; The Five Sisters
is a welcome omission of excessive super-
SIR L. ALMA TADEMA.
of York, 2501. Muirhead Bone, The Shot Tower,
latives.
621. ; Ayr Prison, 1001. ; Rye from Camber, 501. ,
Admiration we find, and appre- The world of art is the poorer for the Liberty's Clock, 602, Claude Gellée, Le Bouvier;
ciation, but the writer keeps his head on death of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema at 551. Meryon, St. Etienne du Mont, first state,
the whole. Whistler is placed before us, the age of 76. On Tuesday last, at Wies. on green paper, 701. ; L'Abside do Notre Dame
not as though he was the most wonderful baden, he succumbed to the malady against Rembrandt, The Landscape with a Ruined Tower
de Paris, second state, on ivory-white paper, 3301.
artist who ever lived and painted, but
which he had been fighting for some time. and Clear Foreground, third state, 671. ; The
as one who reached a certain high achieve-
Born at Dronryp in Friesland, he was left Landscape with the Obelisk, 771. ; Olement de
fatherless at an early age, and, in spite of Jonghe, first state, 5801. ; Jan Lutma, second
inent, not necessarily the highest, in
the straitened means of his family, reso-
state, 1551. ; La Mère de Rembrandt au Voile
artistic endeavour. This is the impression lutely devoted himself to art. He was being soir second state, 841. The total of the sale was
conveyed rather than the view stated ; taught before he was 5, and exhibited at 15.
for Mr. Way does not pass judgment. He got his training at Antwerp, and made At the sale of Lord Cranbrook's pictures by
He admires
and describes here and there, his name with The School for Vengeance ; the sketch by Sir Thomas Lawrence of Master
and then proceeds to his main purpose,
the Education of the Children of Clovis
Standish fetched 9031. ; a man's portrait by
which, as we have said, is to show us
at the Antwerp Exhibition in 1861. The Lucas de Heere, 230 guineas; and two drawings
commissions of Baron Loys and the dealer by Wheatley, 195 guineas.
the worker in the workshop, toiling at
Gambart added to his reputation. As early
the bench. Few men have laboured so
as 1865 his work was shown in the French
hard to acquire a mastery of their means Gallery, Pall Mall, and in 1870 he came to
of expression as Whistler. His industry England to settle permanently. He was
Fine Art Gossip.
and concentration were astonishing, and, made A. R. A. in 1876, and R. A. in 1879.
whatever the final opinion may be on his He was knighted in 1899, and received the
art and its claim to rank with the
master-Order of Merit in 1905. A genial and kindly Arts League, which is published four times
No. 9 of The Journal of the Imperial
pieces of the world's geniuses, there is no
doubt that the artist himself will always mainly exercised on subjects from the pagan tion and the Formation of Public Taste,
For years his careful and learned work, tion at Crosby Hall and Elementary Educa-
a year, has, besides articles on Mural Decora-
stand out as one whose capacity for world of Greece and Rome, won him a
taking pains was infinite. There is some- unique reputation. His output was incesº important notes on the new Copyright Act
thing almost old-maidish in Whistler's sant, but all his pictures, large and small, and the Shops Act. The interpretation of
fussiness over the details of printing an show, a finish in detail and a scholarship to artists, while the sale of pictures to the
etching and the selection of a paper for
his lithographs ; and during the various 1896, a picture
typical of many which we
or an anecdotic interest, as in The Coliseum, advantage of the proprietors of an exhibi-
tion comes apparently within the definition
stages of painting a picture he seems to
have noticed, frequently emphasized for of retail trade, and so is subject to the pro-
have been in a constant state of anxiety, the public the charm of graceful figures visions, which have been in force since
He could talk of little else, and, indeed, brilliantly dressed, and moving in a milieu May 1st. In calling attention to this un
seems to have expected others to limit in which every detail-balcony mouldings, expected difficulty the League is doing good
their remarks in a similar way. Mr.
Way marble floors, fans, vases, or roses
service, for artists certainly need a
sponsible body which will look after their
brings out one capital point, that Whistler worked out with elaborate technique.
was always ready and even anxious for His latest picture in the current Academy interests and take the initiative. Negotia-
tions in which
as many as twenty-five
the advice of his friends in matters To do the same thing for so many years is societies
are represented are in progress to
relating to his art. In the conduct of not, perhaps, to achieve greatness.
his affairs he seems to have resented the
THE third annual dinner of the Allied
slightest interference or suggestion ; such
Artists' Association will be held next
purely personal concerns he must manage
Saturday, July 6th, at 8 P. M. , in the Holborn
as he thought best; but the exclusive THE COOPERS AND JOHN HOSKINS. Restaurant. Mr. Frank Rutter, Curator
artist could listen to and be guided by
of the Leeds Art Gallery, will be in the chair.
Aldwick, Sutton, Surrey.
others, even be influenced to the extent
Among the speakers will be Prof. Michael
of altering an arrangement! This is dealing with the incomparable Samuel Grein.
BEING engaged on an illustrated work Sadler, Mr. Walter Sickert, and Mr. J. T.
Tickets can be obtained from
the most valuable addition to a knowledge Cooper" (acknowledged to be the greatest the Secretary, Allied Artists' Association,
of Whistler we have come across of late. English miniature painter), his brother 67, Chancery Lane, W. C.
It rather disposes of the legendary art Alexander, and uncle John Hoskins, &c. ,
A SIGNED work by Floriano Ferramola has
dictator and the still more legendary I should be greatly obliged if owners of lately been discovered at Brescia, a half-
being who made a mystery of his work, originals by these artists would very kindly length of Christ bearing the Cross. ' In style
holding that an artist should listen to
favour me with particulars of authenticated it differs materially from Ferramola's other
examples in their possession, or known to
no one, but go his own way in his own
authentic paintings, which belong for the
them, with a view to the same being in-
manner, and stand or fall by the result.
cluded in my lists. A full description with
most part to the second decade of the six-
teenth century; here, on the contrary, the
The chief value of this book lies in such the provenance of the miniature, and, character of the work is that of the close of
revelations and glimpses behind the scenes.
where practicable, a sight of the original, the Quattrocento or the first years of the
Of Whistler the man, as he postured in
would be especially esteemed by
Cinquecento, and in type and treatment the
publio, we have heard quite enough.
J. J. FOSTER, picture shows a remarkable connexion with
He and Oscar Wilde have had of recent
Author of ‘Miniature Painters, British the Christ' by Vincenzo Foppa in the
years an amazing amount of writing
and Foreign,' 'The Stuarts in Art,' &c. Chéramy Collection in Paris. From this
point of view the picture at Brescia is of con.
devoted to their doings. One is almost
siderable interest. It shows a phase of
tempted to say that their chief claim to the
Ferramola's art hitherto unknown, and
title of “ master” will be in their capacity
proves that the tradition that he was a
SALES.
for taking pains-over the selection and
pupil of Foppa was undoubtedly correct,
training of disciples ! It is high time On Monday, the 17th inst. , and Tuesday, the though his later work affords little or no
that their posing was forgotten, and ings and drawings : An important collection of
18th, Messrs. Sotheby sold the following engrav; proof of this. The mutilated inscription
is
the artist in each of them studied with
. . . . Opus Floriani. . . . Brex [? ]. . . .
151 engravings after the works of J. Constable,
sanity and a sense of proportion. When
above suspicion. The picture, probably
A collection of engravings after the old
masters formed by the late Rev. W. J. Loftie,
once in a church at Brescia, hung for many
this is attempted, books like Mr. Way's | 2451. Rembrandt, Portrait of Ephraim Bonus, years in the rooms of a charitable institution
will be found a valuable help. These second state, 551. William Blake, a drawing in that city forgotten and unrecognized.
‘Memories,' as they stand, are not a
tempera Christ interceding for the
It has now been placed in the gallery at
Magdalen, 711.
very illuminating contribution to Whist-
Brescia, which, strangely enough, has long
lerian literature ; indeed, they make no
On Wednesday, the 19th inst. , Messrs. Sotheby contained a faithful copy of it, made, some
sold the greater portion of Sir Frederick Wed.
such claims. But students, of etching more's collection of etchings, with a fow of his
twenty years later in date, by Marco Pal.
and lithography especially, will find them
other engravings, the chief
prices realized being characters. Both pictures go back to a
mezzano, whose signature it bears in Hebrew
the following: Whistler, The Kitchen, second
suggestive and interesting.
state, 60%. ; Little Venice, 691. D. Y. Cameron common original,
4001.
in
of
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errors
Occur
was
near
THE fresco discovered last year in the some part in politics under the reign of her and, though there are no diagrams, the
church of S. Francesco at Brescia is in an son as well as in that of her husband, which explanations, even of the organs connected
unusually good state of preservation, and would agree well enough with the classical with breathing, are clear. Articulation, pro-
the purity and brilliancy of the colour are account of her relations with Ninyas as nunciation, &c. , are dealt with in a practical
striking. This applies to the upper portion well as with Ninus. Moreover, it was, as way. Much of the advice given concerns
of it which represents
the Madonna Prof. Lehmann-Haupt himself established speakers as well as singers ; the author,
adoring the Infant Saviour, with a glory of by his journey through Western Asia about for instance, calls attention to the frequent
angel musicians above; of the lower part twelve years ago, in the reign of Adad-nirari bad reading of the lessons in church.
nothing is left, and only a fragment of the that the Medes first began to press upon the
figure of the kneeling donor remains, which kingdom of Assyria, and it may, therefore, Songs for Little Singers, with Music by
is much to be regretted, as the head, so well be that the memory of the great queen
Alicia Adelaide Needham.
W. & R. Chambers
far as it can be seen, appears to have con- was preserved in Persian folk-lore, and there
siderable character. Italian critics imme- found in more or less garbled form by
These are pleasantly harmonized ditties,
diately after this fresco came to light Ctesias. M. Fossey says that all this is very home or school will find little to trouble
so arranged that average accompanists at
declared it to be a work of Bembo; more reasonable, and most archæologists will them, though in one or two instances the
recently it has been attributed to the probably agree with him.
Master of Foppa"; and within the last
key chosen may prove a stumbling-block.
M. J. TOUTAIN, whose valuable studies One unfortunate mistake occurs
few months a pamphlet has appeared in the times of early Christianity are well second song, written in the key of A, though
in the
bearing the misleading title, ‘I Maestri di known, has written a paper on the Legend printed in E throughout ! Minor
Vincenzo Foppa: Bonifacio e Benedetto of St. Simeon Stylites, who is said to have dental "?
acci-
Bembo. "
The
is there the slightest foundation in fact. spent thirty years of his life on the top of perfect book of this kind will have, when it
a pillar. M. Toutain connects this with a arrives, a pocket with slips on which are
Bonifacio Bembo, as was pointed out by Syrian practice in pagan times, and quotes printed the words of the songs, so that all
The Athenæum at the time when the fresco
a curious inscription of a virgin named straining over the piano to read will be
discovered, was the contemporary Hochmæa, who is described as abstaining avoided.
of Foppa and his collaborator on many from bread for twenty years by the order of
occasions, especially in the execution of the god Hadaran, to whom she was conse-
frescoes at Pavia and elsewhere, but there is crated. He also shows that the scene of
not a shadow of evidence to prove that he Simeon Stylites's ascetic practices must
was his master.
have been
Musical Gossip.
the site of Hierapolis,
A RETROSPECTIVE exhibition of portraits where Lucian describes the temple of the
has been opened at Leipsic in the Stadt. Dea Syria as equipped with two high pillars
THE massive chain of choruses in Israel
geschichtliches Museum. The period covered used in the same manner as that of the in Egypt' represents Handel at his greatest.
is from 1700 to 1850.
saint. The article, which appears in the Beethoven admired the composer because
THE Oseberg ship discovered in 1905, des Religions, is fairly convincing.
current number of the Revue de l'Histoire with small means he could produce mighty
effects, but in this work he showed how
with its numerous and valuable contents
science could add strength to musical
viz. , the toilet requisites, workbasket, and
thought. Many who listen to these choruses
kitchen utensils of a Viking queen, remains
feel those effects without knowing the
of a richly ornamented chariot and two
means by which they are produced. Handel,
sledges, various artistic ornaments, and some
MUSIC
in this work, borrowed from other com-
bones of horses and other domestic animals-
posers ; but, with the exception of the Kerl
has now been arranged for exhibition, and
movement, which he transplanted bodily
will find a permanent home in the Historical
into his oratorio, he assimilated his
Museum in Christiania.
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. borrowings so well that scholars at first
THE first volume of the new edition of
(Notice in those columns does not preclude longer only found one or two; but these led to
reviow. )
Prof. R. Kittel's 'Geschichte des Volkes
further research and discoveries.
Israel' is out, and takes note of most Buck (Percy C. ), THE FIRST YEAR AT THE The choir of 3,500 singers was in splendid
of the new discoveries. According to
ORGAN, 2/ net.
order at the first of the Handel Festival
Prof. Kittel, Palestine was first invaded by
Macmillan, and Stainer & Bell performances at the Crystal Palace on
Semites at about the time of Sargon of
In the author's book on the organ, Tuesday, and Sir Frederick Cowen had
Accad, which may not be earlier than published a short time ago, beginners, reason to be proud of the choral singing.
2750 B. C.
An Amorite invasion followed in he has been told, were neglected; but he In the Horse and his rider" and Thy
2500 B. C. , which seems to him to have taken considers that all serious and professional right hand, O Lord,” the swing and the
place u der the first Babylonian Dynasty. students, before touching the organ, have volume of tone were unusually impressive.
He finds, however, great difficulty in recon. acquired sufficient piano technique to be But what was, in a different way, equally
ciling this with the Biblical tradition of able to dispense with elementary work. striking was the subdued singing and clear
Chedorlaomer, because, he says, if Chedor. What he provides for less serious-minded declamation in “ He sent a thick darkness
laomer ever existed, it must have been at students is useful, especially the few pedal over all the land. ” Handel at times merely
latest in the twentieth century before Christ, exercises. They might, however, have been made music, but in this and other pages of
whereas the time of Abraham cannot be included in the larger work, since no the work he displayed genius of the highest
put before the sixteenth. He thinks that amount of piano technique can help a order. The solos and concerted pieces were
the Khabiri mentioned in the Tel El- student when he begins to use the pedal- ably interpreted by Miss Perceval Allen,
Amarna letters are the Semitic group of board.
Miss Esta d'Argo, Madame Clara Butt,
tribes to which the Hebrews belonged ; Cleather (Alice Leighton) and Crump (Basil), and Messrs. Charles Saunders, Kennerley
and also that the use of human sacrifices
TANNHÄUSER AND THE MASTERSINGERS Rumford, and Herbert Brown.
among them at the foundation of towns OF NUREMBERG, described and inter- THE young pianist Solomon, who appeared
and houses cannot be seriously contested. preted in accordance with Wagner's last year in London, gave an orchestral
He suggests that the skeletons of new.
own Writings, 2/6
Methuen concert on Monday afternoon at Queen's
born children found in pottery jars on The two operas are discussed in this small Hall. He is under the wise guidance of
ancient sacrificing-grounds in Palestine are volume freshly and concisely. The chief Miss Mathilde Verne, and an occasional
the remains of the offering of the firstborn representative themes are presented, and appearance in public should be beneficial to
with which the Bible charges the Canaanites, the authors, in describing the music, have him. He is undoubtedly a gifted child,
and which the Israelites are accused of abstained almost entirely from technical being only nine years old, but there were,
imitating.
jargon. We certainly meet with “ triple we were glad to find, indications of imma-
when
The distinguished French Assyriologist, combined counterpoint **
“ three turity in his readings of the solo part of
M. Ch. Fossey, has lately drawn attention to
themes combined ? would have sufficed, Beethoven's c minor Concerto and Liszt's
Prof. Lehmann-Haupt's memoir on Semi- but that is an exception. There is a short ‘Hungarian' Fantasia. The Queen's Hall
ramis, who has for some time been identified appendix containing a variety of inform- Orchestra was under the direction of Sir
with Sammuramat, the queen of Adad-
ation.
Henry Wood.
nirari. A stela has been discovered, how- Rice (Charles Macan), VOICE PRODUCTION THE centenary of Philharmonic
ever, by the German excavators at Kaleh WITH THE AID OF PHONETICS, 1/6 net. Society recently celebrated, and
Shergat bearing an inscription of Sammura-
Cambridge, Heffer the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at
mat,“ lady of the palace of Shamsi Adad, This book contains the substance of lec- Vienna will hold a similar celebration
King of Assyria, and mother of Adad-nirari. tures delivered in Cambridge during the November 30th to December_7th. The
It seems, therefore, that this queen played past five years. The chapters are short, programmes will include Beethoven's
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PERFORMANORS NEXT WEEK.
SON. Special Concert, 3. 30, Royal Albert Hall.
National Sunday League Concert, . , Queen's Hall.
Mox. -Sat. Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Mev. Bar. London Opera House, Kingsway.
Mor. Frank Lambert's Concert, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
Thes. Yvette Guilbert's Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Wro. Eugenia Calosso's Concert, 3. 15, 2ohinn Hall
Reinhold von Warlich's Song Recital. 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
TOURS. Madame Poldowski's Recital, 3, Æolian Hall.
Goll's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Fr. Charles Anthony's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, foliag Hall
Attilia Janni's Vocal Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Nordica's Vocal Recital, 3. 15, Queen's Hall.
Missa Solemnis,' Symphonies in E flat and c of the simplest. The son of a yeoman
by Goldmark and Schubert respectively, farmer and his wife, destined for the followed last Monday. To have selected
Two more of Lady Gregory's comedies
and Brahms's B fat Pianoforte Concerto; priesthood, is mentally convinced that
while at a chamber concert unfamiliar he has no
* Coats' was an error in judgment and
vocation. ' He is defleoted
works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven from his intention of relinquishing the
a proper sense of differentiation.
In
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bottom of the bowl is a bust surrounded by con-
the digestive tube have a useful as well as a
ventional birds. The bowl is a peculiarly fine
harmful part to play.
example of Sassanian art.
Dr. P. Norman, Treasurer, and Mr. F. W. Reader
Science Gossip.
A MINOR planet discovered by Herr Palisa
read a paper on recent discoveries of Roman
remains in London, which was a sequel to one
of Vienna last October turns out to be of
read before the Society in 1906. The main points With the spread of cinematograph theatres exceptional interest on account of the
of the paper are as follows: First, an account was throughout the country, the use of uninflam. position and form of its orbit. This minute
given of four bastions of the City wall, two of mable films has become a matter of great object--not more than four or five miles
which had been partly excavated at the expense
of the Society.
importance, and we might with advantage in diameter—which is technically known as
Of these two, one on the site of
Christ's Hospital has been preserved by the Post
imitate Russia in making the sale of any MT. of 1911, has the same perihelion distance
Office authorities, while the other, under the others illegal. The collodion employed in as Eros, but an orbit of nearly double the
vestry of All Hallows-on-the-Wall, though still the manufacture of cinematograph films is eccentricity, the period being 2*6 years.
notable discovery is that of a narrowfkoman'aitch generally made from nitro-cellulose dissolved Thus although its mean distance from the
in a mixture of camphor, methylic alcohol,
outside the City wall. This was observed in
sun is considerably greater than that of
America Square, at All Hallows, and at Christ's
and ether; but the same effect can be pro- Eros, on account of the greater eccentricity
Hospital. An addition to the Roman gate at duced by the substitution for the nitro- of its orbit it will approach the earth at the
Newgate was found, which proved the width from cellulose of one of the acetylated celluloses, oppositions which occur in the neighbour-
east to west to have been about 31 ft.
or, in other words, of a cellulose prepared hood of perihelion as closely as Eros does
A tower at the Old Bailey, believed by John
with acetic instead of nitric acid. A col. in the same circumstances. It will thus,
Wykeham Archer to be medieval, was redis-
covered and carefully examined, and proved to
lodion thus prepared can be dissolved in along with the latter planet, be at these
be comparatively modern. The authors also acetone and other substances, and acetylated times our nearest celestial neighbour, with
described a piece of the south wall of the City cellulose is actually used in the produc- the exception of the moon.
found last year. This is quite different in con- tion of electrical insulators. Its high price,
struction from the Roman wall on the east,
It appears from observations of the solar
north, and west, and was probably of later date: compared with that of nitro-cellulose, has
hitherto been against its general adoption ; eclipse made by Prof. Fowler at South
MICROSCOPICAL. —June 19. -Mr. H. G. Plimmer,
but with the cheap acetone we are promised Kensington on April 17th last, that it is
President, in the chair. - A paper by Lord Avebury as a by-product of synthetic rubber, this possible to see the bright lines in the spectrum
was read, giving a short account of the develop- objection should now be overcome. Dr. of the solar chromosphere during some phases
ment of pollen and of recent researches on fertiliza- | W. K, Main in an article in the current of an eclipse which is not quito total, or
tion, which show more and more complexity. number of the Revue Scientifique gives the during the partial phase of a total eclipse.
A paper On some New Astrorhizidæ and their
Structure’ was contributed by Messrs. E. Heron-
details of its preparation, and says that it This may modify the arrangements for
Allen and Earland. Two new ecies of Psammo- is already being turned out in Germany future solar eclipses, as hitherto it has been
sphæra and one of Marsipella were described from and the United States in considerable supposed that these lines can only be seen
Sea in connexion with the work of the Inter- cinematograph films throughout the world stantaneously in total solar eclipses, when
specimens
dredged by Mr. Earland in the North quantities. He estimates the production of in the "fash” spectrum which appears in-
Dr. J. F. Gaskell communicated A Method of at 300,000 metres per day.
the chromospheric stratum round the edge
embedding Tissues in Gelatin. '
of the sun is alone uncovered by the moon.
The presentation of a testimonial and illu- PROF. METCHNIKOFF's last recipe for The Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of
minated address to Mr. F. A. Parsons, who has long life is given in a communication made the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical
recently retired from the post of Assistant Secre- by him and Dr. Eugène Wollmann to the Society will shortly consider the question of
tary, took place. Mr. Parsons had served the
Society for nearly sixteen years.
Académie des Sciences during this month. observation of the total eclipse of the sun
He there tells us that senile decay is in of 1914-August 21st-which will be visible
METEOROLOGICAL. . —June 19. -Dr. H. N. Dick- / great measure caused by intestinal poisons, as a total eclipse from Norway and Sweden
son, President, in the chair. -Dr. G. C. Simpson, of which indol and the phenols are among and other parts of Europe, when these newly
meteorologist to the British Antarctic Expedition the chief. These are much less readily acquired ideas may take effect.
1910, read a paper on Coronæ and Iridescent absorbed by the great intestine than is
Clouds. ' During September, 1911, he was one
of a party led by Capt. Scott to survey McMurdo
sugar, and it would, on the same authority,
Sound, and on the 24th, while enveloped in fog, be advantageous to create a source of sugar
be observed a fine fog-bow. It was opposite the in this last. The idea of the writers is,
sun, and a measurement of the radius with a therefore, to administer substances which,
tbeodolite gave 38°.
FINE ARTS
white, but å reddish tinge could be seen on the shall not be converted into sugar until
The bow was virtually owing to the presence of certain microbes,
outer side. As the fog dissipated, the upper
sky became clearer, and the sun shone over the they arrive at the great intestino. They
top of a heavy bank of fog. For some minutes conclude, that the ideal food of man would
and the diameter of this corona seemed unusually a day, with 500 or 600 grammes of clotted
the sun had a brilliant corona with bright colours, be a small quantity of meat, or 120 grammes Memories of James McNeill Whistler. By
T. R. Way. (John Lane. )
large ; but there was no opportunity to make a
measurement. As the fog still further cleared
milk acidulated by the paralactic cocco-
away, glimpses of the corona appeared again, bacillus, the remainder of the two daily IF Whistler was not a master (and the
and the fog under the sun became fairly brilliantly meals which they recommend being made point is still in dispute), at all events he
illuminated with iridescent colours, which did not
up, of vegetables, fruits, and farinaceous had more disciples than most men of
appear to be part of the corona, but in places
blended into it. During the whole period the
substances. With this they claim to have genius. Some of these disciples depress
temperature was between -15° and -21° F. The reduced the production of indoxyl and the
reduced the production of indoxyl and the us, others affect us in quite a contrary
fur of the sleeping bags and the wool of sweaters urinary phenols to a minimum.
became covered with hoarfrost. These observa-
way, and there are a few whose accounts
tions show that water can exist in the atmosphere A CURIOUS point arises with regard to of the man and artist we can be genuinely
at much lower temperatures than has, generally the experiments made by M. Michel Co. grateful for. Mr. Way writes of Whistler
generally admitted that, while halos are caused hendy at the Institut Pasteur at Paris, the worker ; for the most part he does
by the refraction and reflection of ice crystals, and recently noticed in these columns. By not dwell on the many episodes that kept
coronæ are due to diffraction effects of either isolating chickens under entirely aseptic
isolating chickens under entirely aseptic Whistler's name constantly before the
small drops of water or thin ice needles. From conditions, he has succeeded, as he
certain observations made in the Antarctic, Dr.
Simpson was led to doubt the possibility of ice
in making them live without microbes, public, episodes at once trivial and un-
crystals ever forming diffraction effects. This
His concern is to show how
and finds that their bodily strength is forgettable.
is an important question for meteorology, for, thereby fairly maintained. But their diges. the “ butterfly” toiled to produce those
if it is true, we have a powerful instrument tive organs remain charged with a higher things of beauty that dazzled younger
for determining the constitution of a cloud :
if there is a corona, the cloud must be composed tion, and it is therefore necessary for them many of them now, when they are no
proportion of the useless products of diges. contemporaries and continue to dazzle
of water, while, if there is a halo, it must be
composed of ice.
to consume a greater quantity of food than longer youthful. Some day, we suppose,
Mr. W. W. Bryant read a paper on The | animals normally brought up. When
Adoption of a Climatological Day.
such chickens are
the real truth about Whistler will come
released from their
aseptic life and allowed to run with their out. Rumours of it, indeed, have been
Mox. Royal Institution, 6. -Oeneral Meeting,
fellows, their digestive tubes are invaded already whispered by more than one
Aristotelian. 8. -A Modern Materialist, 4 Study of the
Philosophy of George Santyana,' Mr. D. L. Murray.
within twenty-four hours by millions of former devotee ; and the idol set up,
Jewish Historical Society of England, 8. 30. A Dutch Burial- bacteria without any apparent injury. to first in an exclusive by-way, and later in
health, and thereafter they generally thrive. the public market-place, is hardly so
Light throtra on Roman Scotland by the Excavations at The conclusion is drawn from this that the firm in its niche as it was a few years ago.
Faraday. 8. Electrocapillary Pulsation of a Mercury
defence of the organism against bacteria
Mod. Lewis : "On the Variation of the Conductivity of is hereditary, and not acquired; but it
There is evidence of this in Mr. Way's
may quite as well be that the bacteria in volume; not positive evidence indeed,
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Ground and its English Connexions. Rev. Isidore Harris.
TUES. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 4. 30. -The
Cappuck, near Jadbergh, in 1911-12. ' Mr. O. H. Stevenson.
Meniscus, Meskrs. A. P. Roshdestwensky And W. 0.
Aluminium Anode-Pilms with Temperature, Mr. G. E.
Bairsto.
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was
but rather negative, inasmuch as there
Robert Lee's Workshop, 501. ; The Five Sisters
is a welcome omission of excessive super-
SIR L. ALMA TADEMA.
of York, 2501. Muirhead Bone, The Shot Tower,
latives.
621. ; Ayr Prison, 1001. ; Rye from Camber, 501. ,
Admiration we find, and appre- The world of art is the poorer for the Liberty's Clock, 602, Claude Gellée, Le Bouvier;
ciation, but the writer keeps his head on death of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema at 551. Meryon, St. Etienne du Mont, first state,
the whole. Whistler is placed before us, the age of 76. On Tuesday last, at Wies. on green paper, 701. ; L'Abside do Notre Dame
not as though he was the most wonderful baden, he succumbed to the malady against Rembrandt, The Landscape with a Ruined Tower
de Paris, second state, on ivory-white paper, 3301.
artist who ever lived and painted, but
which he had been fighting for some time. and Clear Foreground, third state, 671. ; The
as one who reached a certain high achieve-
Born at Dronryp in Friesland, he was left Landscape with the Obelisk, 771. ; Olement de
fatherless at an early age, and, in spite of Jonghe, first state, 5801. ; Jan Lutma, second
inent, not necessarily the highest, in
the straitened means of his family, reso-
state, 1551. ; La Mère de Rembrandt au Voile
artistic endeavour. This is the impression lutely devoted himself to art. He was being soir second state, 841. The total of the sale was
conveyed rather than the view stated ; taught before he was 5, and exhibited at 15.
for Mr. Way does not pass judgment. He got his training at Antwerp, and made At the sale of Lord Cranbrook's pictures by
He admires
and describes here and there, his name with The School for Vengeance ; the sketch by Sir Thomas Lawrence of Master
and then proceeds to his main purpose,
the Education of the Children of Clovis
Standish fetched 9031. ; a man's portrait by
which, as we have said, is to show us
at the Antwerp Exhibition in 1861. The Lucas de Heere, 230 guineas; and two drawings
commissions of Baron Loys and the dealer by Wheatley, 195 guineas.
the worker in the workshop, toiling at
Gambart added to his reputation. As early
the bench. Few men have laboured so
as 1865 his work was shown in the French
hard to acquire a mastery of their means Gallery, Pall Mall, and in 1870 he came to
of expression as Whistler. His industry England to settle permanently. He was
Fine Art Gossip.
and concentration were astonishing, and, made A. R. A. in 1876, and R. A. in 1879.
whatever the final opinion may be on his He was knighted in 1899, and received the
art and its claim to rank with the
master-Order of Merit in 1905. A genial and kindly Arts League, which is published four times
No. 9 of The Journal of the Imperial
pieces of the world's geniuses, there is no
doubt that the artist himself will always mainly exercised on subjects from the pagan tion and the Formation of Public Taste,
For years his careful and learned work, tion at Crosby Hall and Elementary Educa-
a year, has, besides articles on Mural Decora-
stand out as one whose capacity for world of Greece and Rome, won him a
taking pains was infinite. There is some- unique reputation. His output was incesº important notes on the new Copyright Act
thing almost old-maidish in Whistler's sant, but all his pictures, large and small, and the Shops Act. The interpretation of
fussiness over the details of printing an show, a finish in detail and a scholarship to artists, while the sale of pictures to the
etching and the selection of a paper for
his lithographs ; and during the various 1896, a picture
typical of many which we
or an anecdotic interest, as in The Coliseum, advantage of the proprietors of an exhibi-
tion comes apparently within the definition
stages of painting a picture he seems to
have noticed, frequently emphasized for of retail trade, and so is subject to the pro-
have been in a constant state of anxiety, the public the charm of graceful figures visions, which have been in force since
He could talk of little else, and, indeed, brilliantly dressed, and moving in a milieu May 1st. In calling attention to this un
seems to have expected others to limit in which every detail-balcony mouldings, expected difficulty the League is doing good
their remarks in a similar way. Mr.
Way marble floors, fans, vases, or roses
service, for artists certainly need a
sponsible body which will look after their
brings out one capital point, that Whistler worked out with elaborate technique.
was always ready and even anxious for His latest picture in the current Academy interests and take the initiative. Negotia-
tions in which
as many as twenty-five
the advice of his friends in matters To do the same thing for so many years is societies
are represented are in progress to
relating to his art. In the conduct of not, perhaps, to achieve greatness.
his affairs he seems to have resented the
THE third annual dinner of the Allied
slightest interference or suggestion ; such
Artists' Association will be held next
purely personal concerns he must manage
Saturday, July 6th, at 8 P. M. , in the Holborn
as he thought best; but the exclusive THE COOPERS AND JOHN HOSKINS. Restaurant. Mr. Frank Rutter, Curator
artist could listen to and be guided by
of the Leeds Art Gallery, will be in the chair.
Aldwick, Sutton, Surrey.
others, even be influenced to the extent
Among the speakers will be Prof. Michael
of altering an arrangement! This is dealing with the incomparable Samuel Grein.
BEING engaged on an illustrated work Sadler, Mr. Walter Sickert, and Mr. J. T.
Tickets can be obtained from
the most valuable addition to a knowledge Cooper" (acknowledged to be the greatest the Secretary, Allied Artists' Association,
of Whistler we have come across of late. English miniature painter), his brother 67, Chancery Lane, W. C.
It rather disposes of the legendary art Alexander, and uncle John Hoskins, &c. ,
A SIGNED work by Floriano Ferramola has
dictator and the still more legendary I should be greatly obliged if owners of lately been discovered at Brescia, a half-
being who made a mystery of his work, originals by these artists would very kindly length of Christ bearing the Cross. ' In style
holding that an artist should listen to
favour me with particulars of authenticated it differs materially from Ferramola's other
examples in their possession, or known to
no one, but go his own way in his own
authentic paintings, which belong for the
them, with a view to the same being in-
manner, and stand or fall by the result.
cluded in my lists. A full description with
most part to the second decade of the six-
teenth century; here, on the contrary, the
The chief value of this book lies in such the provenance of the miniature, and, character of the work is that of the close of
revelations and glimpses behind the scenes.
where practicable, a sight of the original, the Quattrocento or the first years of the
Of Whistler the man, as he postured in
would be especially esteemed by
Cinquecento, and in type and treatment the
publio, we have heard quite enough.
J. J. FOSTER, picture shows a remarkable connexion with
He and Oscar Wilde have had of recent
Author of ‘Miniature Painters, British the Christ' by Vincenzo Foppa in the
years an amazing amount of writing
and Foreign,' 'The Stuarts in Art,' &c. Chéramy Collection in Paris. From this
point of view the picture at Brescia is of con.
devoted to their doings. One is almost
siderable interest. It shows a phase of
tempted to say that their chief claim to the
Ferramola's art hitherto unknown, and
title of “ master” will be in their capacity
proves that the tradition that he was a
SALES.
for taking pains-over the selection and
pupil of Foppa was undoubtedly correct,
training of disciples ! It is high time On Monday, the 17th inst. , and Tuesday, the though his later work affords little or no
that their posing was forgotten, and ings and drawings : An important collection of
18th, Messrs. Sotheby sold the following engrav; proof of this. The mutilated inscription
is
the artist in each of them studied with
. . . . Opus Floriani. . . . Brex [? ]. . . .
151 engravings after the works of J. Constable,
sanity and a sense of proportion. When
above suspicion. The picture, probably
A collection of engravings after the old
masters formed by the late Rev. W. J. Loftie,
once in a church at Brescia, hung for many
this is attempted, books like Mr. Way's | 2451. Rembrandt, Portrait of Ephraim Bonus, years in the rooms of a charitable institution
will be found a valuable help. These second state, 551. William Blake, a drawing in that city forgotten and unrecognized.
‘Memories,' as they stand, are not a
tempera Christ interceding for the
It has now been placed in the gallery at
Magdalen, 711.
very illuminating contribution to Whist-
Brescia, which, strangely enough, has long
lerian literature ; indeed, they make no
On Wednesday, the 19th inst. , Messrs. Sotheby contained a faithful copy of it, made, some
sold the greater portion of Sir Frederick Wed.
such claims. But students, of etching more's collection of etchings, with a fow of his
twenty years later in date, by Marco Pal.
and lithography especially, will find them
other engravings, the chief
prices realized being characters. Both pictures go back to a
mezzano, whose signature it bears in Hebrew
the following: Whistler, The Kitchen, second
suggestive and interesting.
state, 60%. ; Little Venice, 691. D. Y. Cameron common original,
4001.
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of
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was
near
THE fresco discovered last year in the some part in politics under the reign of her and, though there are no diagrams, the
church of S. Francesco at Brescia is in an son as well as in that of her husband, which explanations, even of the organs connected
unusually good state of preservation, and would agree well enough with the classical with breathing, are clear. Articulation, pro-
the purity and brilliancy of the colour are account of her relations with Ninyas as nunciation, &c. , are dealt with in a practical
striking. This applies to the upper portion well as with Ninus. Moreover, it was, as way. Much of the advice given concerns
of it which represents
the Madonna Prof. Lehmann-Haupt himself established speakers as well as singers ; the author,
adoring the Infant Saviour, with a glory of by his journey through Western Asia about for instance, calls attention to the frequent
angel musicians above; of the lower part twelve years ago, in the reign of Adad-nirari bad reading of the lessons in church.
nothing is left, and only a fragment of the that the Medes first began to press upon the
figure of the kneeling donor remains, which kingdom of Assyria, and it may, therefore, Songs for Little Singers, with Music by
is much to be regretted, as the head, so well be that the memory of the great queen
Alicia Adelaide Needham.
W. & R. Chambers
far as it can be seen, appears to have con- was preserved in Persian folk-lore, and there
siderable character. Italian critics imme- found in more or less garbled form by
These are pleasantly harmonized ditties,
diately after this fresco came to light Ctesias. M. Fossey says that all this is very home or school will find little to trouble
so arranged that average accompanists at
declared it to be a work of Bembo; more reasonable, and most archæologists will them, though in one or two instances the
recently it has been attributed to the probably agree with him.
Master of Foppa"; and within the last
key chosen may prove a stumbling-block.
M. J. TOUTAIN, whose valuable studies One unfortunate mistake occurs
few months a pamphlet has appeared in the times of early Christianity are well second song, written in the key of A, though
in the
bearing the misleading title, ‘I Maestri di known, has written a paper on the Legend printed in E throughout ! Minor
Vincenzo Foppa: Bonifacio e Benedetto of St. Simeon Stylites, who is said to have dental "?
acci-
Bembo. "
The
is there the slightest foundation in fact. spent thirty years of his life on the top of perfect book of this kind will have, when it
a pillar. M. Toutain connects this with a arrives, a pocket with slips on which are
Bonifacio Bembo, as was pointed out by Syrian practice in pagan times, and quotes printed the words of the songs, so that all
The Athenæum at the time when the fresco
a curious inscription of a virgin named straining over the piano to read will be
discovered, was the contemporary Hochmæa, who is described as abstaining avoided.
of Foppa and his collaborator on many from bread for twenty years by the order of
occasions, especially in the execution of the god Hadaran, to whom she was conse-
frescoes at Pavia and elsewhere, but there is crated. He also shows that the scene of
not a shadow of evidence to prove that he Simeon Stylites's ascetic practices must
was his master.
have been
Musical Gossip.
the site of Hierapolis,
A RETROSPECTIVE exhibition of portraits where Lucian describes the temple of the
has been opened at Leipsic in the Stadt. Dea Syria as equipped with two high pillars
THE massive chain of choruses in Israel
geschichtliches Museum. The period covered used in the same manner as that of the in Egypt' represents Handel at his greatest.
is from 1700 to 1850.
saint. The article, which appears in the Beethoven admired the composer because
THE Oseberg ship discovered in 1905, des Religions, is fairly convincing.
current number of the Revue de l'Histoire with small means he could produce mighty
effects, but in this work he showed how
with its numerous and valuable contents
science could add strength to musical
viz. , the toilet requisites, workbasket, and
thought. Many who listen to these choruses
kitchen utensils of a Viking queen, remains
feel those effects without knowing the
of a richly ornamented chariot and two
means by which they are produced. Handel,
sledges, various artistic ornaments, and some
MUSIC
in this work, borrowed from other com-
bones of horses and other domestic animals-
posers ; but, with the exception of the Kerl
has now been arranged for exhibition, and
movement, which he transplanted bodily
will find a permanent home in the Historical
into his oratorio, he assimilated his
Museum in Christiania.
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. borrowings so well that scholars at first
THE first volume of the new edition of
(Notice in those columns does not preclude longer only found one or two; but these led to
reviow. )
Prof. R. Kittel's 'Geschichte des Volkes
further research and discoveries.
Israel' is out, and takes note of most Buck (Percy C. ), THE FIRST YEAR AT THE The choir of 3,500 singers was in splendid
of the new discoveries. According to
ORGAN, 2/ net.
order at the first of the Handel Festival
Prof. Kittel, Palestine was first invaded by
Macmillan, and Stainer & Bell performances at the Crystal Palace on
Semites at about the time of Sargon of
In the author's book on the organ, Tuesday, and Sir Frederick Cowen had
Accad, which may not be earlier than published a short time ago, beginners, reason to be proud of the choral singing.
2750 B. C.
An Amorite invasion followed in he has been told, were neglected; but he In the Horse and his rider" and Thy
2500 B. C. , which seems to him to have taken considers that all serious and professional right hand, O Lord,” the swing and the
place u der the first Babylonian Dynasty. students, before touching the organ, have volume of tone were unusually impressive.
He finds, however, great difficulty in recon. acquired sufficient piano technique to be But what was, in a different way, equally
ciling this with the Biblical tradition of able to dispense with elementary work. striking was the subdued singing and clear
Chedorlaomer, because, he says, if Chedor. What he provides for less serious-minded declamation in “ He sent a thick darkness
laomer ever existed, it must have been at students is useful, especially the few pedal over all the land. ” Handel at times merely
latest in the twentieth century before Christ, exercises. They might, however, have been made music, but in this and other pages of
whereas the time of Abraham cannot be included in the larger work, since no the work he displayed genius of the highest
put before the sixteenth. He thinks that amount of piano technique can help a order. The solos and concerted pieces were
the Khabiri mentioned in the Tel El- student when he begins to use the pedal- ably interpreted by Miss Perceval Allen,
Amarna letters are the Semitic group of board.
Miss Esta d'Argo, Madame Clara Butt,
tribes to which the Hebrews belonged ; Cleather (Alice Leighton) and Crump (Basil), and Messrs. Charles Saunders, Kennerley
and also that the use of human sacrifices
TANNHÄUSER AND THE MASTERSINGERS Rumford, and Herbert Brown.
among them at the foundation of towns OF NUREMBERG, described and inter- THE young pianist Solomon, who appeared
and houses cannot be seriously contested. preted in accordance with Wagner's last year in London, gave an orchestral
He suggests that the skeletons of new.
own Writings, 2/6
Methuen concert on Monday afternoon at Queen's
born children found in pottery jars on The two operas are discussed in this small Hall. He is under the wise guidance of
ancient sacrificing-grounds in Palestine are volume freshly and concisely. The chief Miss Mathilde Verne, and an occasional
the remains of the offering of the firstborn representative themes are presented, and appearance in public should be beneficial to
with which the Bible charges the Canaanites, the authors, in describing the music, have him. He is undoubtedly a gifted child,
and which the Israelites are accused of abstained almost entirely from technical being only nine years old, but there were,
imitating.
jargon. We certainly meet with “ triple we were glad to find, indications of imma-
when
The distinguished French Assyriologist, combined counterpoint **
“ three turity in his readings of the solo part of
M. Ch. Fossey, has lately drawn attention to
themes combined ? would have sufficed, Beethoven's c minor Concerto and Liszt's
Prof. Lehmann-Haupt's memoir on Semi- but that is an exception. There is a short ‘Hungarian' Fantasia. The Queen's Hall
ramis, who has for some time been identified appendix containing a variety of inform- Orchestra was under the direction of Sir
with Sammuramat, the queen of Adad-
ation.
Henry Wood.
nirari. A stela has been discovered, how- Rice (Charles Macan), VOICE PRODUCTION THE centenary of Philharmonic
ever, by the German excavators at Kaleh WITH THE AID OF PHONETICS, 1/6 net. Society recently celebrated, and
Shergat bearing an inscription of Sammura-
Cambridge, Heffer the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at
mat,“ lady of the palace of Shamsi Adad, This book contains the substance of lec- Vienna will hold a similar celebration
King of Assyria, and mother of Adad-nirari. tures delivered in Cambridge during the November 30th to December_7th. The
It seems, therefore, that this queen played past five years. The chapters are short, programmes will include Beethoven's
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PERFORMANORS NEXT WEEK.
SON. Special Concert, 3. 30, Royal Albert Hall.
National Sunday League Concert, . , Queen's Hall.
Mox. -Sat. Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Mev. Bar. London Opera House, Kingsway.
Mor. Frank Lambert's Concert, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
Thes. Yvette Guilbert's Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Wro. Eugenia Calosso's Concert, 3. 15, 2ohinn Hall
Reinhold von Warlich's Song Recital. 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
TOURS. Madame Poldowski's Recital, 3, Æolian Hall.
Goll's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Fr. Charles Anthony's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, foliag Hall
Attilia Janni's Vocal Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Nordica's Vocal Recital, 3. 15, Queen's Hall.
Missa Solemnis,' Symphonies in E flat and c of the simplest. The son of a yeoman
by Goldmark and Schubert respectively, farmer and his wife, destined for the followed last Monday. To have selected
Two more of Lady Gregory's comedies
and Brahms's B fat Pianoforte Concerto; priesthood, is mentally convinced that
while at a chamber concert unfamiliar he has no
* Coats' was an error in judgment and
vocation. ' He is defleoted
works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven from his intention of relinquishing the
a proper sense of differentiation.
